{"id":14148,"date":"2025-08-21T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14148\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T15:40:08","slug":"beatles-anthology-returns-as-expanded-music-boxed-set-disney-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/14148\/","title":{"rendered":"Beatles ‘Anthology’ Returns as Expanded Music Boxed Set, Disney+ Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSpeculation over what major Beatles product Apple Corps would issue as the group\u2019s big annual fall release can now end: It\u2019s a reissue of all of the components of \u201cAnthology,\u201d the band\u2019s multimedia retrospective project of the late \u201990s, with additional material added to both the music boxed set and the TV series. The documentary will now be seen as a streaming series on Disney+<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlthough a new generation may be discovering all of this audio and visual material for the first time, longtime Beatles buffs will be most interested in the added material. For the LP, CD and digital music packages, that will come in the form of an \u201cAnthology 4\u201d in the boxed set that will include 13 previously unreleased demos and session recordings, alongside other outtakes that already appeared on the band\u2019s deluxe editions in recent years. For the documentary series, that entails a newly assembled ninth episode to join the original eight that were first aired in 1995.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Beatles<\/a>\u2018 \u201cAnthology\u201d book is also being reissued in a softcover 25th anniversary edition, albeit without any additional material beyond the photos and text that were part of the original 2000 printing. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe book reissue will be first out of the gate in this campaign, with an Oct. 14 release date. The music collections will follow on Nov. 21 (a week before Black Friday) in vinyl, CD, digital download and streaming formats. Five days after that, on Nov. 26 (the day before Thanksgiving), the first three episodes of the remastered and expanded documentary series will begin streaming on Disney+. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\"\"<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tBeatles Anthology
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tApple Corps<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new Episode Nine of the documentary series is announced as \u201cincluding unseen behind-the-scenes footage of Paul, George and Ringo coming together between 1994 and 1995 to work on \u2018The Anthology\u2019 and reflecting on their shared life as the Beatles,\u201d per Tuesday\u2019s announcement. The entire documentary has been restored and remastered by Apple Corps\u2019 production team in conjunction with Peter Jackson\u2019s Wingnut Films & Park Road Post teams, plus Giles Martin, whose new audio mixes will be heard in \u201cthe majority of the featured music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe expanded music collection going out under the \u201cAnthology\u201d banner will be available as an eight-CD set and a 12-LP vinyl set along with the digital editions. This boxed set will include 191 tracks in all, with the new \u201cAnthology 4\u201d volume contributing 36 of those numbers. The fresh additions have been curated by Giles Martin, who also remastered all of the material from the three original audio volumes of \u201cAnthology,\u201d which were first released individually in 1995-96.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmong the inclusions on \u201cAnthology 4\u201d are remixed versions of \u201cFree as a Bird\u201d and \u201cReal Love,\u201d the two songs that came out in conjunction with the original \u201cAnthology\u201d releases, in which John Lennon demos from the 1970s were augmented and brought to completion as official Beatles tracks by Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. These 2025 remixes are described as having been \u201cgiven new life by their original producer, Jeff Lynne, using de-mixed\u00a0John\u00a0Lennon vocals.\u201d (\u201cNow and Then,\u201d released in 2023 as the third and apparently last of the posthumous Beatles singles, joins those two remixed 1995 songs to form the final side of \u201cAnthology 4.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new remix of \u201cFree as a Bird\u201d was released Tuesday as the first previously unheard track to come out from the forthcoming set.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnthology 4\u201d also includes track notes written by Kevin Howlett and an introduction compiled from 1996 interviews recorded with Beatles adviser Derek Taylor.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 36 tracks on \u201cAnthology 4\u201d are a mixture of the 13 previously unreleased tracks and numbers that heretofore appeared on deluxe sets celebrating albums like \u201cAbbey Road,\u201d \u201cLet It Be,\u201d the White Album, \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band\u201d and \u201cRevolver,\u201d plus a couple from the limited digital release \u201cThe Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963.\u201d Most of the previously unissued tracks are from the Beatles\u2019 early and mid-\u201960s sessions for albums that have not yet gotten the full deluxe treatment, the way everything from \u201cRevolver\u201d forward in the catalog\u2019s chronology has.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome fans were hoping for a \u201cRubber Soul\u201d 60th anniversary set with session outtakes, but Apple Corps has not released any full-album deluxe sets since \u201cRevolver\u201d got that treatment in 2022. Last year\u2019s big Beatles release was \u201cThe Beatles: 1964 Albums In Mono,\u201d which did not include previously unreleased material, issued in conjunction with Disney+\u2019s \u201cBeatles \u201964\u201d documentary. <\/p>\n

\n\tBelow is the full track listing for the \u201cAnthology 4\u201d discs (which are not being released independently in physical formats apart from the full boxed set):<\/p>\n

\n\tANTHOLOGY, VOLUME 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tLP ONE:<\/p>\n

\n\tSide A:
1: I SAW HER STANDING THERE (Take 2)
The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 \u2013 limited digital release (2013)
2: MONEY (THAT\u2019S WHAT I WANT) (RM7 undubbed)
The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963 \u2013 limited digital release (2013)
3: THIS BOY (Takes 12 and 13) \u2013 Free As A Bird CD single (currently unavailable)
4: TELL ME WHY (Takes 4 and 5) \u2013 previously unreleased
5: IF I FELL (Take 11) \u2013 previously unreleased
6: MATCHBOX (Take 1) \u2013 previously unreleased
7: EVERY LITTLE THING (Takes 6 and 7) \u2013 previously unreleased
8: I NEED YOU (Take 1) \u2013 previously unreleased<\/p>\n

\n\tSide B:
1: I\u2019VE JUST SEEN A FACE (Take 3) \u2013 previously unreleased
2: IN MY LIFE (Take 1) \u2013 previously unreleased
3: NOWHERE MAN (First Version \u2013 Take 2) \u2013 previously unreleased
4: GOT TO GET YOU INTO MY LIFE (Second Version \u2013 unnumbered mix)
Revolver Special Edition (2022)
5: LOVE YOU TO (Take 7)
Revolver Special Edition (2022)
6: STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER (Take 26)
Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band Special Edition (2017)
7: SHE\u2019S LEAVING HOME (Take 1 \u2013 Instrumental)
Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band Special Edition (2017)<\/p>\n

\n\tLP TWO:<\/p>\n

\n\tSide A:
1: BABY, YOU\u2019RE A RICH MAN (Takes 11 and 12) \u2013 previously unreleased
2: ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE (Rehearsal for BBC broadcast) \u2013 previously unreleased
3: THE FOOL ON THE HILL (Take 5 \u2013 Instrumental) \u2013 previously unreleased
4 I AM THE WALRUS (Take 19 \u2013 Strings, brass, clarinet overdub) \u2013 previously unreleased<\/p>\n

\n\tSide B:
1: HEY BULLDOG (Take 4 \u2013 Instrumental) \u2013 previously unreleased
2: GOOD NIGHT (Take 10 with a guitar part from Take 5)
The Beatles (\u2018White Album\u2019) Special Edition (2018)
3: WHILE MY GUITAR GENTLY WEEPS (Third Version \u2013 Take 27)
The Beatles (\u2018White Album\u2019) Special Edition (2018)
4: (YOU\u2019RE SO SQUARE) BABY I DON\u2019T CARE (Studio Jam)
The Beatles (\u2018White Album\u2019) Special Edition (2018)
5: HELTER SKELTER (Second Version \u2013 Take 17)
The Beatles (\u2018White Album\u2019) Special Edition (2018)
6: I WILL (Take 29)
The Beatles (\u2018White Album\u2019) Special Edition (2018)
7: CAN YOU TAKE ME BACK? (Take 1)
The Beatles (\u2018White Album\u2019) Special Edition (2018)
8: JULIA (Two Rehearsals)
The Beatles (\u2018White Album\u2019) Special Edition (2018)<\/p>\n

\n\tLP THREE:<\/p>\n

\n\tSide A:
1: GET BACK (Take 8)
Let It Be Special Edition (2021)
2: OCTOPUS\u2019S GARDEN (Rehearsal)
Let It Be Special Edition (2021)
3: DON\u2019T LET ME DOWN (First Rooftop Performance)
Let It Be Special Edition (2021)
4: YOU NEVER GIVE ME YOUR MONEY (Take 36)
Abbey Road Special Edition (2019)
5: HERE COMES THE SUN (Take 9)
Abbey Road Special Edition (2019)
6: SOMETHING (Take 39 \u2013 Instrumental \u2013 strings only)
Abbey Road Special Edition (2019)<\/p>\n

\n\tSide B:
1: FREE AS A BIRD (2025 Mix) \u2013 new mix
2: REAL LOVE (2025 Mix) \u2013 new mix
3: NOW AND THEN \u2013 2023 Single + The Beatles 1966-1970 (\u2018Blue Album\u2019) (2023)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speculation over what major Beatles product Apple Corps would issue as the group\u2019s big annual fall release can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[1887,18,117,19,17,337,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-14148","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-disney","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-the-beatles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}